Is Life Perfect For You?

If so, then maybe…just maybe…you’ve missed the whole point!

Being well adjusted to social conformity
means you are living by others’ standards.
Your perfect life is all in your head.

It is precisely because of recognising the imperfections
that we can achieve enlightenment.
It is in the recognition of our suffering
and the cause of that suffering
that we our path begins.

Then again, everything is perfect,
as karma creates everything we encounter.
Accidents do occur – it’s how we respond that that counts,
and that too depends on our karma reaction.

Then again, this is the Perfect Prayer from the Isha Upanishad :
“That is perfect, this is perfect: perfect comes from perfect.
Take perfect from perfect, the remainder is perfect.
May peace and peace and peace be everywhere.

Whatever lives is full of the Lord.
Claim nothing, enjoy, do not covert his property.

Then hope for a hundred years of doing your duty:
no other way can prevent deeds from clinging,
proud as you are of your human life.”

A Buddhist would translate:
‘This and that’
as awareness is empty, and all phenomena is also empty:
as emptiness is perfect, perfect comes from perfect.
‘Lord’
as emptiness.
‘Claim nothing’
as non attachment.
‘Doing your duty’
as the altruistic attitude.

We are all perfect.

“But! But! I’ve got such good karma!”
Then spend it well.
It doesn’t last forever.